Brad Aaron
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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Driver Who Killed 3 People on Bronx Sidewalk Charged With Manslaughter
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District Attorney Darcel Clark filed manslaughter and homicide charges against a motorist who fatally struck three people, including a child, on a Bronx sidewalk last year. Howard Unger was indicted this week on three counts of manslaughter, three counts of assault, three counts of homicide, one count of misdemeanor reckless endangerment, and one misdemeanor count of falsifying records, […]
DOT and Citi Bike Celebrate Sixth Avenue Bikeway and #WomenWhoBike
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DOT and Citi Bike marked the return of a protected bike lane to Sixth Avenue today with a ribbon-cutting and celebratory ride. The event also served to highlight Women’s Bike Month and a Motivate campaign to encourage women in NYC to ride bikes. The new Sixth Avenue bikeway runs from Eighth Street to 33rd Street, the same street where […]
NYPD: No Charges for School Bus Driver Who Killed Woman in Bronx Crosswalk
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A school bus driver killed a woman in a crosswalk in University Heights last week. NYPD filed no charges. Carmen Puello, 43, was crossing Sedgwick Avenue at West Fordham Road at around 12:30 last Friday afternoon when the driver, eastbound in the center lane of West Fordham, struck her while turning right onto Sedgwick, NYPD told WCBS. “He […]
Off-Duty NYPD Cop Who Killed SI Pedestrian Found Guilty of Homicide
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An off-duty NYPD officer was found guilty at trial last week for the hit-and-run killing of a pedestrian in the Mariners Harbor section of Staten Island. [Update: McClean was sentenced to one to three years in prison, fined $2,000, and had his drivers license revoked, according to the Staten Island Advance.] William Hemphill, 51, was crossing Richmond Terrace, near […]
Read Brad Lander’s Pitch-Perfect Statement on Bike-Share and Parking
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City Council Member Brad Lander released a pitch-perfect response to complaints about bike-share and curbside parking today. Other NYC pols should take note. Every time bike-share expands to new neighborhoods, some people get upset — mainly because the local supply of free curbside car parking shrinks by a fraction of a percent. Last week Assembly Member Dan O’Donnell, who represents the […]
Driver Who Killed Cyclist on City Island Bridge Pleads Guilty to Homicide
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A motorist who fatally struck a woman riding a bike on the City Island Bridge pled guilty to felony leaving the scene and homicide. Gabriela Aguilar-Vallinos was on her way home from work at around 11:45 p.m. on September 11, 2015, when Michael Moreno hit her with a Hyundai sedan, then left the scene. Aguilar-Vallinos sustained head trauma and died at […]
A Trucker Ran Over a Cyclist, So the 84th Precinct Ticketed Cyclists
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Aaaaaand… @NYPD84Pct ticketing #bikeNYC again at Tillary and Jay. pic.twitter.com/g0uBuBjVW9 — DoorZone (@D00RZ0NE) October 11, 2016 Hours after a truck driver ran over a cyclist at Jay and Tillary streets yesterday, officers from the 84th Precinct were out ticketing cyclists. Streetsblog reader Paul Vogel, a.k.a. @D00rZ0ne, tweeted photos of officers ticketing people on bikes during the evening […]
Drivers Have Killed Seven People in Bike-Obsessed 19th Precinct in 2016
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Blanca Pagan, the senior who was struck last Friday by a driver who failed to yield, was at least the seventh pedestrian killed by a motorist this year in the 19th Precinct, on the Upper East Side. Deputy Inspector Clint McPherson, the precinct’s commanding officer, has prioritized ticketing people on bikes, with encouragement from local City Council members Ben […]
Truck Driver Severely Injures Cyclist in Downtown Brooklyn
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Very bad at Jay and Tillary. Looks like KSI #bikeNYC. pic.twitter.com/kuC37iptto — DoorZone (@D00RZ0NE) October 11, 2016 A semi truck driver ran over a cyclist at the corner of Jay and Tillary streets in Downtown Brooklyn this morning. The crash happened at around 7:15. NYPD told Streetsblog the truck driver was turning right from Tillary onto […]
Bike-Share Stations Don’t Usurp Parking — They Are Parking
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Untrue/sad @CitiBikeNYC post by @DannyODonnellNY. Was tons of input + in this ‘hood < 5% park in street. No effect on commercial load/unload pic.twitter.com/4DLyIUcNjg — pfrishauf (@pfrishauf) October 5, 2016 Space hogs in Manhattan and Brooklyn are complaining about bike-share stations on neighborhood streets, and the powers that be are listening. In a letter to […]
How Bad Is Bus Service on Your Route? Check This Web Site and See
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Just how bad do bus riders have it in NYC? Today the transit advocates with the Bus Turnaround campaign launched a web site that lets you look up any route in the system and see how it performs. Spend a few minutes on the site and you’ll see why ridership has fallen 16 percent citywide since 2002. There’s […]
Parks Dept. Implements Hudson River Greenway Detour, Then Explains It
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Hudson River Greenway traffic will be disrupted for the next two weeks to allow for construction work around 59th Street, the Parks Department said today. Yesterday greenway users were surprised to find the path fenced off from 59th Street to around 63rd Street, with all bike and foot traffic detoured onto a path approximately eight feet wide. A […]